Update: How COVID-19 fatalities in the US compare to the country’s worst flu seasons

The United States coronavirus death toll eclipsed the 100,000 milestone on May 27 and, as of early June, is nearing a figure that few may have expected or feared at the start of the novel coronavirus outbreak. How do U.S. COVID-19 fatalities compare to some of the worst flu seasons in the nation’s history? At the end of April, AccuWeather analyzed the data and compared the death toll to some of the worst seasons. At the time, the U.S. death toll…